Verses Written In February, 1827 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LIKE gleam of sunshine on the mountain's side,Fair, bright and beautiful, while all beside,Slope, cliff and pinnacle in shadow lieBeneath ...
Joanna Baillie Poems on Light (51 Poems)
On Grey Hair (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU , whom the giddy mock, the gay deride,Protracted folly's scourge, and foe to pride,I'll meet thee, poor, pale omen ...
The Song Of Triumph Of The Greeks, Off Tenedos, After The Night Of The 10th Of November, 1822 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE Monarchs of Europe, who prattle of peace,Shall cease, from this night, to calumniate Greece,The Moslems repent that they roused ...
A Cheerful-Tempered Lover’s Farewell To His Mistress (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE light winds on the streamers playThat soon shall bear me far away;My comrades give the parting cheer,And I alone ...
Hymn #4 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ALMIGHTY God, from whom our being came,To whom it tends, blest be thy holy name!Blest when through pillared aisles we ...
The Loss Of The Royal George (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHERE are the tamers of the deep,The gallant and the brave?Heaven's angry whirlwinds o'er them sweep,Cold ocean is their grave.Was ...
Hymn #5 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MY soul! and dost thou faintly shrink,Thus trembling on an awful brink?Or rough or smooth, but one step more,And thy ...
To Count —-, on The Death Of His Wife (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHEN first I saw her, blushing like the rose,And tints of beauty o'er her forehead spread;E'en then I trembled for ...
The Merry Heart (Joanna Baillie Poems)
I WOULD not from the wise requireThe lumber of their learned lore;Nor would I from the rich desireA single counter ...
Hymn #6 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOSE , Lord, who raise their souls to thee,Not alway sink on bended knee.On earth's vast space of sea and ...
St. luke VII. 12. (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN silent sorrow from the gates of Nain,Bearing their dead, the widow's only son,A band of friends went forth; and ...
A Sketch (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LIGHT was her step, no sound her movements made;With bending head, her breath she scarcely drewBefore that couch on which ...
St. John XXI. 1. (Joanna Baillie Poems)
TOIL-WORN upon their wavy sea,With empty nets and wasted store,The fishermen of GalileeAre steering cheerless to the shore.But lo! upon ...
The Black Cock (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WRITTEN FOR A WELCH AIR, CALLED "THE NOTE OF THE BLACK COCK."GOOD morrow to thy sable beak,And glossy plumage, dark ...
Job XIII. 15. (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O GOD , who by thy boundless might,This earth, heaven's dome and stars of light,Hast formed in wisdom and in ...
St. Cecilia (Joanna Baillie Poems)
AWAKE , thou lov'd strain! oh, again let me hear thee!Breathe o'er me again thy enchantment divine:'Tis silence,—'tis night,—no intruder ...
Song Written For A Welch Air Called (Joanna Baillie Poems)
"THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT."ALL white hang the bushes o'er Elaw's sweet stream,And pale from the rock the long icicles gleam;The ...
School Rhymes For Negro Children (Joanna Baillie Poems)
How happy are we in that hour we love,When shadows grow longer and branches move; Blithe urchins then we be!From the ...
Sonnet On The Apennines (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN the sun's eye I sate, nor deem'd his rayToo bright to gaze on, for the autumnal breeze,Though gently whispering ...
Song #7 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WITH the rough blast heaves the billow,In the light air waves the willow,Every thing of moving kindVaries with the veering ...
Second Devotional Song (Joanna Baillie Poems)
OUR heavenly Father sent his SonFrom hateful sin to save us,And precious blessings many a one,Health, friends and freedom gave ...